Choosing the right financial provider is crucial if you plan to grow. Pilot offers end-to-end help—books, tax, and advisory—that gives you the clarity to build with confidence. Whereas 1-800 Accountant customers say it’s a Dotcom era service headquartered on Wall Street that’s been hollowed out by years of cost cutting.
Pilot’s advantage is it offers one integrated offering. Rather than juggling multiple vendors, you have one expert bookkeeper who knows your business, and one place for your books, cash flow, and expenses. You can ask them questions and, if needed, you can use our CFO, tax preparer, or payroll specialist.
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Pilot’s bookkeeping gets a 4.7 out of 5 stars on G2. It’s the #1-rated bookkeeping service there, serving 3,500 companies.
With Pilot, you get live dashboards showing your cash position, profit and loss statement, and vendors by spend. Because the books are human-certified, they’re correct.
With books as a foundation, Pilot can fill in missing areas of your business: Someone to make budgets, someone to forecast revenue, someone to manage invoicing, and so on.
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We keep your books accurate with AI-powered income and expense recognition plus an expert human bookkeeper.
To unite your finances, not split them across vendors.
Cash dashboards to save you time.
Integrated tax preparation.
CFO advisors for planning and strategy.
Expert advisors to reassure your investors.
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1-800 Accountant can be a good fit if financials and growth are not a high priority right now. That sounds disparaging, but it’s not—there is a time and a place for this. Freelancers, side hustlers, and companies that are stalled may find it’s a good stop gap measure. Whereas businesses that are growing, have questions, or need GAAP-certified financials find it limiting.
1-800 Accountant earns a respectable 4.4 out of 5 on one review site TrustPilot, primarily from freelancers.
1-800 Accountant is just bookkeeping and tax preparation. They offer a few “additional services” like tax planning, but they are not comprehensive. It does not offer advisory.
The support gets noticeably worse during tax season. Reviewers say there are hidden fees and customer support always tries to upsell them.
You must use their proprietary software. If you use other apps to run your business, you may have to download and upload .csv files
You do not plan on growing—just maintaining.
You don’t need a consistent person who knows your business.
You have a finance team and just need bookkeeping.
Tyler runs a recruiting startup whose traditional accounting firm kept making mistakes over and over. He thought, “I have got to find someone who actually can learn us, and know our business.” A friend recommended Pilot. Over the next few years he grew from $30k in sales to $3 million.
Pilot gives me confidence in our numbers.
A ‘measure twice, cut once’ approach
Pilot’s team are former investment and private equity people who get your finances right the first time.
When we needed to hire in other states, Pilot helped us file.
Full financial support
With Pilot, you get a whole team of experts. Whatever arises with payroll, invoices, payments, loans, or strategy, we can help.
We’re doing 20% more revenue with the same headcount.
Integrated bookkeeping means more profit
With Pilot, you get a dedicated team doing your books and financial models, and that combination helps you staff and grow.
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